--- aeelms at aol.com wrote:
> Â from nytimes
> September 19, 2001
> Attacks Called Great Art
>
> The composer Karlheinz Stockhausen caused outrage in
> Germany when he
> described the terrorist attacks in the United States
> last week as "the
> greatest work of art ever," Agence France-Presse
> reported yesterday.
> Mr. Stockhausen, 73, who made the remark to
> journalists in Hamburg on Sunday,
> retracted it at once and asked that it not be
> reported.
> But two Stockhausen concerts scheduled for yesterday
> and today in a festival
> in Hamburg were canceled.
> "Out of feeling for the political culture of the
> city and the federal
> republic, the concerts had to be canceled," said
> Christina Weiss, Hamburg
> culture commissioner.
> Agence France-Presse reported that according to the
> news agency DPA, Mr.
> Stockhausen responded to a question about the
> attacks on the United States by
> saying: "What happened there is — they all have to
> rearrange their brains now
> — is the greatest work of art ever.
> "That characters can bring about in one act what we
> in music cannot dream of,
> that people practice madly for 10 years, completely,
> fanatically, for a
> concert and then die. That is the greatest work of
> art for the whole cosmos.
> "I could not do that. Against that, we, composers,
> are nothing."
> Mr. Stockhausen was reported to have left Hamburg in
> distress.
>
>
>
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